linux->mingw32: xgcc cannot produce executables!

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You can download Mumit Khan's package, which includes the header files
and prebuilt libraries, from
ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/

Alexander V. Voinov wrote:

>         Dear Colleagues,
>
>         I've tried to build egcs-1.1b as a crosscompiler:
>         host = i586-unknown-linux
>         target=i586-pc-mingw32
>         prefix=$HOME/usr (I have no su priviledges on that box).
>
>         Having completed with cc1, cc1plus, ..., gcc
>         it starts to configure libiberty and complains
>         that xgcc "doesn't work": "it cannot produce executables".
>
> Furthre investigation reveals that while configuring
> target-libiberty it tries to build an executable and
> cannot find crt1.o, libmingw32.a and (probably) all
> other stuff from native mingw32 installation.
> When all these was fed to xgcc, the build process
> completed without any complaint and with workable
> compiler.
>
> For the case of mingw32 it's not a problem
> to have required files. But for a completely new
> environment?
>
> > What to do? Should I take libiberty from binutils?
> No.
>
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